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Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:44:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Re: Arrays vs separate tables
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2025, Adrian Klaver wrote:

> For direct_phone and email entries that have more then one value, how do you 
> know what the values are pointing at e.g home vs office vs second office 
> location, etc?

Adrian,

At this point I don't know. If there's no answer on one number I try
another. If there were separate tables the three colums would be in interger
PK, a description, and the number/address.

Rich